Improvement in labels for plug-tobacco and cigars



I e. w. YERBY. LABEL FOR; PLUG-TOBACCO AND CIGARS.

No. 192,726. Patented July 3,1877.

mvnmdm ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. YERBY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN LABELS FOR PLUG-TOBACCO AND CIGARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 192,726, dated July 3, 1877 application filed May 28, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. YERBY, of

the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Label for Pluglobacco and Cigars, of which the following is a specification:

The invention will first be described in connection with the drawing, and then pointed out in the claim.

In the drawing, A is a plug of tobacco, of

the usual form, and B is a portion of a leaf of tobacco, of lighter color than the plug, inwhich apertures, having the form of letters or characters, are cut, which, when the label is at tached to the plug, permit the darker covering of the plug to show, thus making the letters or characters prominent and easily distinguished. Where the label is applied to a light-colored plug it is made from a dark leaf. The labels should be applied to the plugs before they are subjected to pressure.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and Patent- A tobacco-plug provided with a label of the same material, but a different color, the letters or characters being cut, and the label incorporated with the plug by compression, as shown and described.

GEORGE W. YERBY.

Witnesses:

(l. SEDGWICK, ALEX. F. ROBERTS.

desire to secure by Letters 

